Sometimes Tor hidden services are just convenient if you're behind a NAT you can't control (be it corporate or carrier).
It was written in response to someone claiming something like “Tor provides no benefit over TLS unless you want anonymity” and strives to demonstrate it provides non-anonymity security benefits beyond what TLS can do.
It discusses a very specific scenario because that’s what I was arguing about with someone. The title could’ve been better.
got a mini at home serving as an exit node
set this up one time the it dep was being obtuse about fw rules, and locked us out of ssh, so we couldn't push to gh - amateur hour; add more shadow it